Retain Quotes
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Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
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There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. They are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. These are the qualities I want to retain in my music.
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
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Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.
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We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.
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Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.
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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
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Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this – who once has loved, loves never on earth again!
